Site details

Arkasa: Vonies

PK	C5275
TITLE	Arkasa: Vonies
WGS84	35.472119° N, 27.127556° E
Accuracy	10 m.

LAT/LON	35.472119, 27.127556
LON/LAT	27.127556, 35.472119

DMS

35° 28' 19.6284" N

27° 7' 39.2016" E

W3W	tout, hopefully, grander
UTM	35 S, 511572, 3925409
EGSA87	783644, 3929610

Elevation m	138
Elevation feet	452.8
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Karpathos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Georgiadis [2003], 35    'At the site of Vonies (A11) in the Arkasa region another chamber tomb, ... was found just to the south of the road ... '
2.    Chamber Tomb.   Melas [1985], 39    'In July 1978, while the road was being widened, the bulldozer cut through the middle of a chamber tomb...'
3.    Chamber Tomb.   Melas [1983], 56    ' ...on the gentle slope in the locality of Vones, where a chamber tomb was accidentally discovered three years ago...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA1: (1420 BC - 1390 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 40, 'The evidence from the pottery suggests a continuous use of the tomb for more than a hundred yars (LM IIIA1 - early IIIB).'

2. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ..., in use from LH IIIA1-B ... '

3. Late Minoan IIIA2: (1390 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Melas [1983]: 56, 'The grave offerings include some 60 vases and two bronze rings ... dated from LM III A2 to III B1, ...'
    b.    Melas [1985]: 40, '... to IIIA2/IIIA2 phases ...'

4. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ..., in use from LH IIIA1-B ... '

5. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 40, 'The evidence from the pottery suggests a continuous use of the tomb for more than a hundred yars (LM IIIA1 - early IIIB).'

6. Late Minoan IIIB1: (1330 BC - 1250 BC)
    a.    Melas [1983]: 56, 'The grave offerings include some 60 vases and two bronze rings ... dated from LM III A2 to III B1, ...'

7. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Georgiadis [2003]: 35, ' ..., in use from LH IIIA1-B ... '

NOTES

1. Marker placed according to the map in Melas [1983] p. 54, Fig. 1.

2. Position based on the photograph in Georgiadis [2003] 270, Fig. 5.5 and the sketch map Fig. 5.4.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Georgiadis [2003]: Georgiadis, Mercourios. The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period; Islands, landscape, death and ancestors. BAR International Series 1196. 2003., '5.2.1 Karpathos and Kasos', pg. 35. Online here.

2. Melas [1983]: Melas, E.M.. ‘Minoan and Mycenaean Settlement in Kasos and Karpathos’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (30), pp. 53-61, 1983., '', pg. 56. Online here.

3. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'E40. Vonies', pg. 39.